To:N. P. BRYUKHANOV

Written:Written on November 6, 1922Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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ComradeBryukhanovPeople’s Commissariat for Food

Ihave been informed that, because of the rainy summer,
great quantities of grain are being delivered to the
grain-collecting stations in a moist state. It is feared that it
will easily heat up and lose its economic value.

Pleaselet me know whether this is true, and whether
the necessary measures have been taken to safeguard the
collected grain, and also who is personally in charge of
this on the all-Russia scale.

GlebMaximilianovich informs me that a great threat
to the tax in kind lies in the delayed delivery of
considerable quantities of food, reaching 10,000 carloads at the
points of destination—Moscow, Petrograd, Samara,
Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and others, which is due to
a shortage of storage space at the points of destination
and general delays in discharging.

Itlooks as though no favourable results have yet been
achieved by re-routing freight from one point to another,
because even after re-routing to other points, the freight
cars are kept under discharge for weeks, waiting for
sacking and storage space.

Anespecially dangerous moment now seems to be coming
up because the warehouses are full up.

Pleaselet me know the present state of the unloadingof grain, and the measures being taken by the People’s
Commissariat for Food to accelerate it.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars